Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Life in CEG – The Intro

It was day two, our first intro session with the seniors which happened in a large spacious room in the Science block. Unlike the one I experienced in NIT this intro was enjoyable. Aaron who was comfortable sitting next to me was constantly asking me “Are you not scared?”. well for a thug who served in thihar jail, vellore jail is a cake walk like wise this intro session jus seemed like a happy time pass for me. Like every other university, our university also had a salute. Shake sphere, our class rep was the first one to learn that salute, he had to repeat the salute till he perfected it. In addition, he has to teach it for those who fail to do the honours properly. One by one, we were called randomly to the front, first up its the salute then its up to ur performance, the earlier you satisfy them, the sooner you’ll return, So the rules wer simple. Suddenly a girl picked Aaron, I felt a tremor as Aaron vacated the bench vibrating like a Nokia 1100. Previously I told him the trick, of how to get back soon. Aaron is a fast learner, somehow his Philips bulb glowed in time and he showed some magic trick to the seniors, they got impressed. He then returned with a great sigh of relief, this time no vibration, no ringtone, he was in silent mode. I was not caught in the first intro, we had a series of intro sessions which mostly happened in science block. I remember only a few interesting ones. Rakhi stunned everyone with his voice wen he sang the famous fish wedding song, Mr. Childhood Elephant God was the mic holder. Spiderman was asked to take push ups, the army school chick ah was asked to shoot spiderman. Here also, Triple jumper wrote programs on the board. Then a gal was asked to play a video jockey. Eye glower gave flowers to the seniors. Diana left the scene fighting with a senior. Vassool Raja let out his ambition to marry the life saver. Alva Edison once again scared the seniors, with his trademark Question Attack. LTTE Chief was asked to giv a NCC salute, he managed to do it with a tinch of snake babu effect in it. Ms Mia who served the NCC for quite a while went berserk over LTTE chief’s salute. At first when I saw her reactions, I thought she was undercover here for some army mission like in Main Hoon na. I cursed Indian Army for not assigning srk this mission, atleast we wud hav had Sushmitha as our PPS teacher. Hmm our Keragam we had Mia substituting for srk. Finally it was my time, luckily I was not alone. We were abt 8-10 guys who were asked to giv intro at the same time coz it got late, we had a lab session next. All the seniors demanded to do something very interesting and disappear. The Philips bulb glowed, I got an idea, actually I borrowed it from Selvaragavan. It was a song it went like,Me:“Raja” “Rajaathi Raajan intha Raja”Others: “AH Ah” “Kooja.....” .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Philips saved the day for me and others. We were given assignments, and tasks to be done.. then there was this announcement abt our freshers. These Intro sessions, if taken in the right spirit will help in getting adapted to the new environment. Yeah we might think who r these seniors, wat right do they hav, to order us... etc.. etc... but if we think for a minute they are a lot better than the sick bosses and managers under whom we hav to work, wer we hav no other option but to obey thier orders blindly, even if you can prove them wrong.